Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sat Nov 18 21:24:21 UTC 2006


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:03:43PM -0700, Larry Lade wrote:
> According to dpkg.log packages vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, vim-tiny,
> vim-gtk, vim-gnome, vim-gui-common  from 1:7.0-094+1 to 1:7.0-122+1, to 1:
> 7.0-152+1, to 1:7.0-158+1, to 1:7.0-164+1. The error messages about the
> Russian manpage do not appear in that log. I can attach the log if you think
> it would be useful.

The portion about upgrading to 1:7.0-164+1 may be, but I'm not very
hopeful.

> Synaptic's History tool oddly records no activity on these packages since 26
> October (122 -> 152 upgrade).
> 
> I'm starting to suspect this is cruft introduced by some other package some
> time ago. I'm still perplexed where "/usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/" is coming
> from, since I don't even have such a directory on my filesystem.

Up until 1:7.0-164+1, Vim (vim-common specifically) shipped man pages in
that directory.  Every vim variant also setup alternatives links in the
various man page directories.  In 1:7.0-164+1, we stopped shipping man
pages in /usr/share/man/ru.{UTF-8,KOI8-R}/man1 and moved the KOI8-R man
pages to /usr/share/man/ru/man1 based on another bug report that had
been filed against Vim a while ago.

What I suspected was happening was that when we setup the alternatives in
vim-$variant's postinst, it had problems with the ru.KOI8-R and ru.UTF-8
no longer being shipped.  That doesn't seem to be the case though, at
least when I perform an upgrade.  I'll try it in a fresh chroot later to
see if something about my normal environment is making things work when
they shouldn't.  Otherwise, I'm at a loss as to why it's working for me
and not for other people.

James
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